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RE: Metal Weekend: Vai not?

in #music6 years ago

sweet. remember that album "flexible"- not the music, but the album cover. we had some weird stuff back in the

day. Vai is amazing - is he still kicking ? [j-c , am I ?]

dang. might just drink to that. dog hair requiring attendance.

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He's still playing at 58, but I've not kept up with the latest stuff. He is a real master of the guitar

for sure. he is one of those god-level dudes, no weaknesses in his game whatsoever. was he always strictly solo , or did he play in one of those glam hair bands like whitesnake ? for some reason I thought he was a bit older than that.

saw a fairly recent video of eddie van halen looking like a happy old robotic gnome but still absolutely shredding it on guitar- pretty amazing stuff.

He played with Frank Zappa early on then Alcatraz, Whitesnake and PIL as well as DLR. He started pretty young